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BED LOUNGE.

No. 269.055. Patented Dec; 12, 18-82.

INVENTOR fWM y BY ATTORNEYS WITNESSES:

N. PEYERs Plwlo-liihognmhlrvwl UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PHILIP HERBOLD, JR, OF GALION, OHIO.

BED-LOUNGE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 269,055, dated December12,1882.

' Application filed August 3, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PHILIP HERBOLD, Jr., of Galion. in the county ofCrawford and State of Ohio, have invented a new and Improved Bed-Lounge,of which the following is a full, clear, and exact; description.

My invention consists of the top and bottom parts of the frame,connected by a doublejointed arrangement of the front board of thelounge, and by a couple of jointed extensionbraces, in a manner wherebythe said parts separate when opened for making the bed to the extent ofthe breadth of the said front board, thus increasing the width of thebed, and by the separation of the rails of the said parts the middle ofthe bed is softer than when such rails remain in the middle, the bedbeing in this case supported at two points sufficiently distant from thecenter to be more even in respect to the softness of its surface, ashereinafter fully described.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part ofthis specification, in which similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure l is a perspecti ve view of my im proved hed-loungeas when foldedup forruse as a lounge. Fig. 2 is a transverse. section of the same aswhen opened for a bed.

a represents the lower portion of the frame of the bed-lounge, b theupper portion of said frame, and c the front board of said frame.

The part a, has legs d, of the usual or any approved form, and the partb has side pieces, 6, for the head, of any approved arrangement. I makethe front board, 0, equal in width to the depth of the two parts of theframe from top to bottom, and binge its upper edge to the upper side ofpart b of the frame at f, and its lower edge to the lower edge of thepart a of the frame, so that when the bed opens the two parts ofthe-frame will separate from each other as much as the breadth of thefront board, and thus add to the width of the bed as compared withbed-lounges of which the parts are hinged together inthe common way, andto cause the said parts of the frame to swing properly when opening andclosing, and also for supporting the mattressacross the gap between thesaid parts a b. I apply thejointed eXtension-bracesi by hinging them tothe part a and fixing them to slide in the boxes h of part1), whichcauses part b toswiug up on points 9, and thus fold board 0 upvertically before it folds on joints f, thus preventing the difficultyof folding that would occur by first folding on jointsf if said braceswere not used, which would require the part b to be lifted onto the part(1.. The braces also facilitate the opening of the bed, though not sonecessary in that case. These braces may,however,'be dispensed with inlight beds that maybe easilylifted, and bars may be temporarily laidacross the gap to support the mattress.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent- 1. The top and bottom parts, b and a, of a bed-loungehinged together by the front board,

c, to be separated thereby when open a distance equal to the breadth ofsaid front board, substantially as described.

2. The combination ofthejointed extensionbraces i, with the top andbottom parts ofa bedlounge hinged together by the front board, 0, to beseparated thereby when open, substantiall y as described.v

3. The top and bottom parts, b and a, of a bed-lounge jointed at theupper and lower edges, respectively, to the upper and lower edges of thefront board, 0, substantially as described.

4. In a bed-lounge, the top and bottom parts ofthe frame hinged togetherby the front board, 0, and thereby separated when opened, and

supporting the mattress at points each side of the center, substantiallyas described.

5. In a bed-lounge having its top and bottom. parts, 12 (1-, hingedtogether by the front board, a, substantially as described, theextension-braces '13, hinged to one part and working in boxes h of theother part, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

PHILIP HERBOL'D, JR.

Witnesses:

CHAS. E. WHEELER, AARON PARK.

